Just to say that I like the new 'scrolling' most recent posts section on the home page. I generally keep my number of unread posts to single figures, but sometimes it goes higher - I used to have to click on the '100 recent posts' page to check how far back I had to go - now I just hit the scroll wheel!

One request - could we have the individual item numbers back? It just makes it a bit easier to work out where you are in the list of 100!

In fact this window on the Board Index never carried message numbers -- those only appeared (and still do) when a new page was invoked to display '100', '1000' or 'ALL' messages. But I agree that with the scrolling they're useful for navigation, so here they are.

Sounds like a browser compatibility issue to me. Now if it were a common complaint I'd see about tweaking the code, but since it isn't (at least no-one else has mentioned it), and in any case yours isn't a complaint , it might just have to remain an annoyance. But I hope it's not so annoying that you quit again!

Oh good: I found and fixed a small instance of noncompliance with HTML tables syntax (all my fault) which generally makes no difference, but IE can be picky sometimes and do the wrong thing rather than simply ignoring the error like other browsers.

Oh good: I found and fixed a small instance of noncompliance with HTML tables syntax (all my fault) which generally makes no difference, but IE can be picky sometimes and do the wrong thing rather than simply ignoring the error like other browsers.

Steve

Or possibly not! IE appears to be misbehaving once more - but Firefox is still performing correctly. The initial display is fine but as soon as the cursor is brought over one of the first ten listed entries the great white space opens up and the list is dropped right down to the bottom. Very strange!

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Even more peculiar: it doesn't happen when I'm logged in, only when browsing as a guest as I discovered when I had to log in to post this.

"Works well enough" seems to sum up the MS philosophy on everything. Strikes me, as an admitted computer amateur, that pretty much all of their software works "well enough", but usually nothing like as well as something else that's easily available, sometimes free.

For suggestions of alternatives that might be available and suit, a regular visit to John Naughton’s online diary is, I find, helpful. I'm any reader would find this kind of thing useful. Even more helpful is a visit to the Living without Microsoft, website, a site John co-founded specifically designed and maintains pro-bono to help anyone wishing to explore the possibility of living without Microsoft software.

John, who was twice nominated Critic of the Year during his stint as television critic for The Observer (1987-1995), and who is now the paper's internet commentator, has written an entertaining book about the growth of the internet, A Brief History of the Future. He writes in a plain, jargon-free English that non-technical people (like myself) can understand and appreciate. He is -amongst other things, many other things, I should say - Professor of Public Understanding of Technology with the Open University and, in that capcity, writes, develops and delivers courses to people who are getting almost their very first taste of immense possibilities opened up by the technology.

So if you are looking for help, John's your man, as they say in the country we both come from.